Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Pastoral Theology
Ordained Itinerant Elder with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
Appointed 2013

Education

B.S.
M.A.
M.A.
M.Div.
Ph.D.

Golden State University
California Southern University
Claremont School of Theology
Fuller Theological Seminary
Claremont School of Theology

Teaching and Research

History, theory and methods of practical theology and spiritual care and counseling

Post-trauma pastoral psychology

Practical theology in the African-American experience

Critical and transformational pedagogies

Marriage and family therapy

Relational cultural theory and therapy

Liberation and contextual theologies

Publications

Articles

“Rot at the Core: Black Theology and Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach Towards Liberation from Psychological Slavery.” The AME Church Review (2011).

Papers

“History, Culture and Relationships of Single African American Mothers Towards the Development of a Healthy Relationship Education Curriculum.” Paper presented for the Society of Pastoral Theology, 2011.

“Pastoral Counseling in Para Church and Non-Profit Organizations.” Paper presented for the Claremont School of Theology on Non-Profit Vocations, 2011.

“Healing Generations of Self-hatred: The Intersection of Religion and Post-Trauma Psychology Towards the Healing of Intergenerational Transmission of Self-hatred within African-American Family Systems.” Paper presented for the American Academy of Religion Psychology, Culture, and Religion Group, 2010.